“The sudden passing of Roger Ailes will make it difficult for Fox News to refute the allegations against him as his testimony was
not secured by sworn testimony to date,” said Douglas Wigdor, a lawyer who represents 21 current and former Fox News employees.
Mr. Ailes, who died Thursday at 77, built Fox News into the most profitable and most politically influential cable news network.
But the parent company of Fox News, 21st Century Fox, did not rally behind Mr. Ailes.
But I can’t stop people from calling me,’ he said.”
Mr. Wolff said that as the two men spoke, Ms. Ailes had texted him a picture of Mr. Ailes lying in the sun.
Following Mr. Ailes’s departure from Fox News, 21st Century Fox said it had incurred
a total of $45 million in costs tied to settlements through March 31.
The relationship between Mr. Trump and Mr. Ailes had been turbulent earlier in the campaign,
centering primarily on the candidate’s frustration with the Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly.
Everything changed for Mr. Ailes on July 6, when Gretchen Carlson, a former Fox News anchor, filed a lawsuit accusing him of sexual harassment.
